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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

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